pompeo updates part 1 (amedio's cousins)

I did some additional research while I was creating my Pompeo Family Tree book on ancestry.com, and wanted to document it on my blog as well as in the book.  The book begins with my grandfather, Amedio Pompeo and continues to the later generations.  I will start this post with Amedio's grandparents, my 2nd great grandparents, Croce and Elisabetta Pompeo.

Croce Pompeo and Elisabetta Cappola family chart

Amedio's grandparents, Croce and Elisabetta Pompeo, remained in Italy their entire lives and had 5 children; 3 girls and 2 boys, all born in Torre de Passeri.   The youngest daughter, Concetta, died at the age of 10, a week before her mother Elisabetta died.  Since their deaths were so close, it seems likely they had a similar illness that may have caused their deaths; but the Italian records do not have cause of death listed.  Antonio, Amedio's father, was only 12 years old when his mother died. 

After Amedio's grandmother Elisabetta died, his grandfather, Croce, stayed in Italy, remarried twice, and moved to a neighboring town in Italy, San Valentino.  Not all of Elisabetta and Croce's children remained in Italy though.  About 10 years after Elisabetta died, all the children, except Amelia, started to leave Italy for America; Adelina in 1903, Antonio in 1905, and Giuseppe in 1906.  Adelina married Cristofaro Gagliardi in 1900 in Torre de Passeri.  It does not seem that Amedio's Aunt Adelina and Uncle Cristofaro had any children, as the 1910 and 1920 censuses do not list any living in their household.   Amedio's Uncle Guiseppe (Joseph) and Aunt Cirettina (Cristina); however, had at least 9 children, all born in Quincy, MA; providing Amedio with many cousins.  Their names according to the various censuses were Crosi, Elizabeth, Angelina, Americo, Albina, Adele, Olga, Gladys, and Croce.  It seems a bit strange that they would have two children named Crosi and Croce, but that are the names on the censuses.   

The only child of Croce and Elisabetta that remained in Italy, Amelia, married Fiore Luigi Ferrara in Torre de Passeri in 1905; 10 months after her brother Antonio left for America.  Amelia and Fiore had at least three children in Torre de Passeri; the last one was born in 1909 (the birth records online only go up to 1910, so there may have been more).  Amelia's husband Fiore seems to have traveled back and forth from Italy to the US, with a passenger record in 1902, then back to Italy with the birth of his children, then back to the US with a WWI draft card in Quincy, MA in 1917.  This draft card lists a Marietta as his closet relative living in Torre de Passeri, I am not sure why it does not list Amelia.  Perhaps she died and he remarried, or maybe it is just a mistake.  I did not find a death record for Amelia in Torre de Passeri, or a passenger record for her.  Their children, Amedio's cousins, do not seem to have come to the US either.  Perhaps this Ferrara family's line still remain in Italy.  The following chart is for Fiore Luigi Ferrara and Amelia Pompeo's family.

Fiore Luigi Ferrara and Amelia Pompeo family chart

Summary:

Possible cousins of Amedio Pompeo in Italy

1. Amelis and Fiore Luigi Ferrara's children - Antonia, Alfredo and Croce - could be more
2. Concetta Pompeo - no children, died at age 10

Cousins of Amedio Pompeo in Quincy, MA

1. Adelina Pompeo and Cristofaro Gagliardi's children - none
2. Guiseppe (Joseph) Pompeo and Cristina's children - Crosi, Elizabeth, Angelina, Americo, Albina, Adele, Olga, Gladys, and Croce